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11 Nov 2008 mellow_bunny

himegimi | Grabbing my list NAO before the new site launches.

That’s right dawgs. Go ahead and post your himegimi list on your website NOW with the post title “himegimi|yourname” and then link it in a comment on this post. IF YOU ARE FIRST IN THE COMMENT LIST WITH AN UNCLAIMED HIMEGIMI YOU WILL THUSLY BE GIVEN “FIRST DIBS” ON THAT HIMEGIMI UPON LAUNCH. <– READ AGAIN FOR GREAT JUSTICE. NOW GOGOGOGOGOGO AND POST THEN COMMENT! DOOO EEEEET. Oh yeah if you don’t have a blog then just chuck your list in a comment.

Remember the same rules apply as before, your list must contain your top ten himegimis. If you don’t know what a himegimi is then pshaw. You can find out from someone who does know.. they will become apparent when the posts start appearing.

mellow_bunny’s list

1. Aoba Tsugumi (Kannagi)
2. Isurugi Noe (True Tears)
3. Kushieda Minori (I am leaving first dibs open on Minori) (Toradora)

As you can see my list is smaller then most of you will probably have. There will be many who will have great difficulty in choosing their list. ANYWAY FOR FIRST DIBS GOGOGOGOGOOGO!

I leave you with the below image of suspicious cheese.

30 Oct 2008 mellow_bunny

EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT!

HOLY CRAP SOMETHING HUGE AND (insert large words here) IS COMING! WHAT IS IT?? Well to be honest it’s a sausage cut in half and made to look like an octopus.. or a quadropus… depending on how you look at it. Meet mellowSPACE’s newest companion or should I say.. MASCOT.

He will lead us into the new generation! He will lead us into mSPACE future! He will cook delicious breakfast! (Or be delicious breakfast…) A huge thanks to my good friend Stevie who helped create this amazing being!

17 Sep 2008 Aka

Games Convention Asia 2008@Singapore

GCA08

I’ll be providing some event coverage for the Games Convention Asia 2008 thats happening tomorrow till saturday at suntec city singapore. Sadly, i only can attend the last day of the event; so i hope not to disappoint people this time with what i can soup up for it. Hope to see YOU there!

Post mirrored on mellowSPACE, Reinforce Network and noticed at AnimeConnex

15 Sep 2008 mellow_bunny

Graphite 08 | Manga Art Competition

So anywho I received all this info on a manga art competion going down in what I believe is Singapore. Seriously it didn’t say Singapore anywhere on it. Anywho you can check out their website here. The press release is in a PDF format which you can find here. I have put in the poster below go check it out!

08 Aug 2008 mellow_bunny

Kyouki: It’s going to be madness.

It’s about time I make a proper announcement and get this project well on it’s way. After a few months of intense workload I now have time to complete and launch one of three projects I have in development. If you hadn’t guessed already I have a personal goal in improving our blogosphere and creating new experiences for us all to enjoy.

So in line with trying to achieve this goal I have created a competition that aims at trying to get you out of your writing comfort zone. Not only is it meant to stretch your capabilities but it is meant to help you grow as a writer and to have fun with it. We shouldn’t be afraid of trying new things, we can only improve from what we learn.

Why is it called Kyouki?

Pretty simply it comes down to me playing with a Japanese -> English dictionary. I was looking for something that represented ‘crazy’ or ‘extreme’. I came across kyouki which much like kichigai, kyouran and hakkyou can have the meaning of ‘madness’. I kinda grabbed onto the ‘madness’ and ran with it. Kyouki can also mean ‘dangerous weapon’, which I think kind of suits this competition. When you think about it, words can be more powerful (sometimes more treacherous) then a physical weapon.

So although it was somewhat of a whim I think the naming of this project actually suits. Why is it Japanese? Well why not? I do have a fascination with the culture bordering on weeabooness. It only makes sense. Plus it means I can use sweet characters in the banner.

What’s in it for me?

Quite simply, prizes and prestige (aka e-pen0r). Not to mention that although your article will appear on the e-zine site, your blog or website will be linked to. Nothing beats easy web traffic. A mini profile of yourself will be on the site and we will have information about you placed on the right hand side of your article.

You will also experience a lovely warm fuzzy feeling knowing that you are one of the chosen few who get the chance to show their stuff off to an eager public. You will also feel a warm glow from knowing you have made a little bunny called mellow very happy :D!

You got me at prizes! How’s it gonna work?

As I stated before this is a project of mine. I have received valuable advice and input from a few bloggers such as yourself. Those who helped me out with forming a plan have first dibs on helping to  run it too. Because this is just a project, I am unable to fund prizes for all 12 months that i’d like it to run. Hence the first month that we run this competition will be a sort of pilot month. Based on what happens with the first month I will go to potential sponsors asking for some support.

When it comes to participants we are looking to have twelve different writers each month create feature articles. The idea is that instead of just writing something up and submitting it to us, we will work with you to create an article that reaches a certain level so to speak. This project is about creating something real, something of excellent quality and something that will bring our blogosphere to the fore.

Each of the first eleven months will feature a different topic. The topic will be quite broad to allow as many views as possible to be expressed. What will the topics be? This has yet to be decided and most likely we will put our feelers out to the chosen twelve authors of that month to give us ideas.

How do you get to be a writer? Once our staff has been assembled we will launch an application page. All that will be required on the entry form is your name, email address and a link to an example of your writing. It will basically work in a first in first served basis. Writers will be given a few weeks before their deadline is due. I don’t as of yet have a timetable for this but our staff will work with you to ensure your article is ready on time. We do not have plans to allow extensions for writers who are late. We have to stick to a firm schedule to make this work.

Writers will have a set of guidelines for the content that they write. This is to not only protect themselves and all those involved when it comes to legalities but will help keep a certain level of writing. I will explain more on this when we launch the Kyouki site.

So how does a writer win the prizes on offer for the month? Well the main purpose of this competition is to exhibit the writings. So the whole choosing who wins it is a simple process and almost a by product. Basically anyone can sign up with the site and vote on each article. They can vote on some or just one article, it’s entirely up to them. The voting is done on a star scale and whomever gets the highest votes wins.

You said staff, what are they for… and can I be one?

The staff are there to help run this event over the (hopefully) year. They do not have to commit to the whole year but it would be nice =x! Positions that are currently available include the following.

Moderators

These guys will be in charge of looking after comments on the articles and filtering out the spam and trolls. Their duties will also include proof-reading the articles and the odd other duty.

Editors

I am looking for a team of Editors, these peeps will be the support for the writers and will oversee them. Each Editor will look after a given number of writers for the month. They will work with their writers to ensure a level of quality and make sure that they are within the writing guidelines.

There will be more positions i’m sure but at the moment the Editing is the big one. I know i’m asking a lot because at this point I cannot offer anything but e-pen0r. Please contact me on “mellow at mellowspace dot com” if you would like to apply for these positions.

You called this a project.. how does it end?

At this point the project is planned to run a total of twelve months. The first eleven months will consist of different writers making their individual entries with our Editors. The twelfth and final month will be a chance for all the articles written over the year to be re-featured and re-voted for. The prize pool will be extended for this month and will feature prizes from all of the year’s sponsors. There will be a collection of slightly smaller prizes distributed to an as of yet undetermined amount of winners.

The end of the final month will signal the end of this project. At that point we will look at the possibility of re-running the event for another year under perhaps revised guidelines. We will not make a firm decision on this until the end of this year though.

This is when the REALLY exciting stuff will happen. The editors and management staff will then work through the 132 articles and ready them for printing. That’s right printing. Unless we are unable to use the article because of legal reasons we will publish your article along with the others in a high quality glossy magazine format publication. This will be available to all the writers in a PDF format. There will be a limited run of the magazine for those who want to pay the cost.

It is my true hope that we can come away from this event with high regard for the written word and the topic we so passionately blog about.

mellow

16 Jul 2008 mellow_bunny

Wordpress 2.6 WHY DO PEOPLE BAW?

I noticed that the newest version of Wordpress is out today. I was excited and why not? This new version has resolved the flash uploader issue by giving you a choice, it now features page and post revisions, it makes use of Google Gears to speed up load times if you choose, there is theme previews, a word counter, bulk management of plugins, better image management and much more.

Check this video out if you are interested. (EDIT: I forgot to post a link to the Wordpress Dev Blog.)

So with all these great features why do people BAWWWWWWWW?! I have a theory. People hate change. It’s that bloody simple. They got used to the old UI for example and can’t handle the jandal hence the thousands of posts about hating the new layout and how it sucks. The point is the software is making PROGRESS. Wordpress is becoming an even better CMS to work with. Deal with it.

So do you plan to upgrade soon? If you’ve recently upgraded to 2.5 or 2.6 what are your thoughts on the new features?

04 Jul 2008 mellow_bunny

STOP THE PRESS!

Aliens in the form of great fruits of the world have invaded! That and I totally watched Kanokon from start to finish. I don’t have much to say on it except I preferred Nozomu out of all the characters. I think I might read the novels and or manga though. I am still watching Kyouran Kazoku Nikki and I still have episode six of Mnemosyne to see.

That’s pretty much all I have to say at the moment. I’ll write something meaningful and full of screenshots later tonight :P. Carry on people.

Edit: Also lol… the amount of people who are sucked in by a scary title. Excellent.

10 May 2008 mellow_bunny

Shifting server

That’s right mSPACE is on the move to my new dedicated server.

25 Apr 2008 mellow_bunny

Anime Blog Awards

So I thought I better write a post about it :D! I am involved so it’s probably a good idea. As you know it’s an event for Blogger by Bloggers and we hope to get as many involved as possible. There has been some issues but Impz has addressed those as best as possible. Anywho you can check out some new banners I whipped up and some that Impz made:

I thought i’d shower everyone with some statistics. They aren’t accurate but they give an idea of the numbers involved. I’m sure i’ll be posting on the proper results once they are compiled. Poor Akai is tiredface and doing all the bean counting -.-!

Since the beginning of the awards (somewhere around a month ago) 150+ bloggers have signed up to be part of the nomination process. Most of you who have signed up are running your own blog and I think we only have a couple of cases of multiple authors from one blog signing up (this is ok btw).

We experienced the dramas of the faux DORAMA from the ABC which may or may not have affected the ABA. They are two seperate entities if you didn’t know already. Anywho over the month of nominating we had somewhere in the region of 850+ nomination comments. I think you could probably double that number for the number of actual votes considering most people posted more then one nomination per comment. Heck it could be triple that number.

According to Google apparentely our top search query is Best Manga. I don’t have access to the server stats at the moment but i’ll try get them off Akai for my next ABA post.

The site is based on the brilliant work by Derek Punsalan and his Grid Focus theme. I altered it around a bit and I made most of the graphics on the site as it is now. There are a few changes i’d like to make to it but I’m short on time. I have to finalise the award badges today as well as creating the People’s Choice Award. I’m thinking of a complete site redesign once this year’s event is over. Not to mention I think we will be running an Indie version in a few months.

The one major thing I have gotten out of the Awards are all the new blogs i’ve now seen. It’s amazing how my bookmarks have grown. I DIDN’T KNOW YOU GUYS WERE OUT THERE D:! It’s awesome to see! Reading blogs now takes me ages :P!

It’s kind of cool to be part of the Awards. It’s neat to see a better overview of who is out there in the Anime Blogosphere. As of yet I haven’t seen a very definitive chart or statistical analysis on the numbers of people who publish and those who read. It would be nice if there was some sort of site that could show us the extent of the community.

But anywho, I’ll write up another post once we begin the Voting. Also if anyone wants to have a crack at design ideas for the ABA I’m all ears. :D!

-mellow_bunny

27 Mar 2008 mellow_bunny

Blog sharing at mellowSPACE

I’ve seen a few anime blogs around that perhaps have slowed in their post frequency from lack of interest or perhaps not wanting the pressure of full blog ownership. I’m always open to writers jumping on mellowSPACE. It’s a no pressure environment and you can post as much or as little as you want. I’m open to all your suggestions and I don’t charge ;D!

If you are interested then let me know on IRC or leave a comment here. The process depends on what you want to do but I’m able to copy over any posts that you’ve previously made so that they stay with you. That’s what I did with JTFish anyways, I upgraded his blog then exported and re-imported his posts into mellowSPACE. Hahaha he never used categories though you see =_=~! So I ended up going through all his posts. It was awesome.

Anyway if you are looking to reduce the stress on your blogging life but still be in the game then drop me a message.